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Giacomo Manzù (1908-1991) was an Italian sculptor and a mainly self taught artist. In a letter from Giacomo Manzù to Alan Wurtzburger, he stated that when he last wrote he enclosed a photo of "Dance Step" hoping to substitute it for the bronze "Young Girl on a Chair" but Wurtzburger insisted on "Young Girl on a Chair". Manzù wrote about his artistic process, "You know that I never make copies of my works and even if I wanted to make a variation, I would not be able to because the wax model has been destroyed, which is what happens to all my wax models for my sculptures". The only possibility is to redo the subject. He asked Wurtzburger to advise him as to how to proceed. The letter is a photocopy, in Italian, includes translation.